CHILDREN'S CORNER

Hutt News, Volume 1, Issue 6, 28 June 1928, Page 1

CHILDREN'S CORNER

UNCLE BILL'S LETTER

Dear Youngsters,—l know you will all be frightfully anxious to know how my cold is so I'll tell you all the story immediately and then we can do something more interesting. Well I discovered that after having mustard baths before and after every meal for eight and a half days in the week an'l sneezing three times very Garefully in to a handkerchief when riding in the motor buses, my cold was really no better so I went to see an old friend at mine who is really a doctor, but does not like you to say so, at least not to his face. "Bill," He said (he always calls me Bill being a very old friend), "the trouble with you is this: your antejentaculumpostrandial organ is not playing, the band on your hat has lost its 17th violin and the drums of your ears are playing so loudly that you can't heal- your own whistle. Isn't that so*" . "Certainly," said I. "Then go home and bo a good boy," said he. So 1 went and here lam and feeling very much better too. Why I actually could hear myself whistling a little tune this morning. I don't exactly know what the tune was and it sounded very far away but it was certainly I.

Well I had a very interesting even ing the evening; before last evening or was it the evening before that evening. It may have been the morning of course or perhaps even the afternoon but I am inclined to think it was the evening. Well I looked at pictures, not the dull pictures one usually finds in books but pictures actually drawn in Lower Hutt by children in Lower Hutt. They were splendid, although some people did make MotheivHubbard look a little bit too much like a raging lion. Not that that matters of course. Personally I am very fond of raging lions. In fact I slept with one once in Petone but that is another story. Hooray for the present, Yours, UNCLE BILL. Answers to Last Week's Puzzles. 1. The magic square was rather difficult, because some of you thought that the numbers had all to be different, well they didn't. 2. The two errand boys had a mile to go, for that was the distance between the shops. 3. In the puzzle of the three teacups there is of course a catch. As a matter of fact, there was one lump in the first cup, two in the second, and seven in the third, but the first cup was plaeecl inside the second! 4. Similiarly, in the eleven pennies trick! From the eleven take five,: then add four to those already taken away, and you leave nine. Simple, isn't it?' Puzzles for This Week. These are all very easy puzzles for the youngsters. 1. Make a magic square like the one last week so that all the sides add up to 15, and all the diagonals likewise, but you cannot use 0 and all the figures must be different. You may do it the first shot, and again you may not! 2. Can you see familiar names in these:— SLRSEUL ASEERRH OO KRNAPI *£3 TTIELL 9 NTARHAGM 3. The little fraction given here represents 11. See if you can so arrang three nines that they represent 20. THE MOON IS STOLEN Anne once saw the moon in a pool of water. Many, other people had also seen the moon in a pool of water but had left it there. Not so Anne. "If I take the moon," said Anne, "I shall then have it." Which was veryclever of her, of course. So she took the moon, and, hiding it in the wardrobe in her bedroom, curled her tongue in her cheek and said nothing.

"The Moon, where is the Moon?" asked everybody, and they; spent so much time looking for it that their necks became as stiff as pokers, which is very stiff indeed. But Anne knew, for she often thought how much like a big cream cheese it looked.

The newspaper people brought out three papers every day full of useful advice on looking for moons, and gave the latest reports on the progress of the search. Only the "Hutt News" knew anything about it, and naturally it did not tell. Still there was no sign of the moon. Then somebody important thought of the idea of advertising for it, and put up a notice:— Notis. To the person who iinds the moon will be given a reward of two shillings and sixpense. Anyone found detaining same will prosecuted. If the moon is returned to its proper place, no questions will be asked or answered. - " Now Anne's mother's housemaid went^ to clean out Anne's wardrobe, and she said to herself "What a remarkable cheese!" She had two or three quick looks at the very remarkable cheese, and then, being a rather intelligent girl, ran down the road shouting at the top of her voice, '' 1 have found the moon, I have found the moon—The Moon is Found! They collected the moon in a motor t delivery van and returned .it to its proper place, but they did not give the housemaid the half-crown, for a Liberal Government was in power. They did, however, make her a Duchess, but poor Anne was forced ever afterwards to wear a collar oa which was printed, 'Anne is a Thief, she Stole the Moon.' and they even charged her the annual dog T;ax.